The preface to Lanting has 324 words.
The preface to Lanting has 28 lines and 324 words. It is charming and elegant throughout, with exquisite words, stippling is like dancing, like the help of gods and men, and it is regarded as the best in the book circles of past dynasties.
Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting, also known as Preface to Linhe, Preface to Lanting Collection, and Zantie, has 28 lines and 324 words. In the 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353), Wang Xizhi's book was praised by Mi Fei as "the best running script in the world". The original works are buried in Zhaoling, and there are copies and temporary copies handed down from generation to generation, and the "Dragon Book" is the best.
The pen used in this post is mainly the center, with a flank between strokes, which is slender and light, or the pen is broken and connected, and the overall layout is scattered, which has infinite charm of chic, beautiful and moving. "This post has a lofty position in the history of calligraphy in China.
Extended information
On April 22nd, 353 (March 3rd, 9th year of Jin Yonghe, 1661 years ago), Wang Xizhi, who was then the civil history of Huiji, and 41 friends including Xie An and Sun Chuo were drinking and writing poems at Lanting Yaji in Shanyin Huiji.
Wang Xizhi compiled these poems into an episode, and made a preface to it, describing the story of wandering water and expressing his inner feelings caused by it. This preface is Preface to Lanting Collection. And wrote a preface to Lanting Collection.
Emperor Taizong admired him very much, and once wrote Wang Xizhi's Biography in the Book of Jin, praising it as "perfection". He also gave Guiwei a copy of his duty, and he was buried with the original.
preface to Baidu Encyclopedia-Lanting Collection